To
the next president of the United States, you face a living nightmare
of a financial Katrina combined with ecological Sandy. Our country stands
$16 trillion in debt while we wade further into deeper waters at $1
trillion more annually. It’s a debt so deep and so wide, it can
only be solved with a miracle if we expect to avoid collapse.

Our
second president John Adams said, “There are two ways to defeat
a country: by the sword or by debt.”

While
Obama inherited Bush’s incompetence, he passes the same debt and
unemployment on to either himself or Romney. As Einstein said, “Our
problems are so enormous that they cannot be solved with the level of
thinking that created them.”

On
December 31, 2012, the U.S. government races toward a fiscal cliff.
It must tax the rapidly vanishing Middle Class while it rages further
into an exploding majority welfare state.

Congress
must raise the debt ceiling past the moon or the next president will
be the first in history to default on Treasury bonds. Either way, we
all face a Faustian Bargain.

Secondly,
today, one in seven American workers suffers unemployment. A mind numbing
47 million Americans subsist on food stamps. A full 23 percent of prime
working-age men or 14 million lack full time jobs. Another 7 million
work at 20 hour per week low paying jobs.

For
20 years, Congress outsourced, insourced and offshored jobs to third
world countries. China, India, Mexico and Bangladesh gladly employed
their billions at slave wages and sold us goods that none of our factories
could make at such rock bottom prices. Every product we buy from China
kills an American job.

While
countless millions of Americans lost their jobs for the past 20 years,
our Congress imported 20 million green card holding immigrants and continues
this practice (1 million immigrants imported annually) in 2012. No one
connects the dots. No one points it out. The Main Stream Media censors
any discussion of this predicament. The bankers laugh and high five
each other as their wallets grow and ours get vacuumed into bankruptsy.

Thirdly,
we must look at 80 million baby boomers retiring. Medicare and Social
security cannot survive those numbers. Most of the boomers did not prepare
themselves for retirement. The next president inherits a growing old
age poverty class.

At
some point, the Congress must raise the retirement age for Social Security
benefits. At some juncture, Americans must take care of their health
better throughout their lives, i.e., over 60 percent of them suffer
obesity, which they will pay a severe price in old age.

Fifth,
and again, our Congress fails to deal with the China equation. Their
1.3 billion workers make mince-meat out of our measly 300 million citizens.
They own $1.3 trillion of our Treasure bills. We cannot compete in “Free
Trade” so we hobble toward our destiny like the “Old Woman
in the Shoe.”

While
we may continue our military exploits around the world, we cannot pay
for endless military expenses. We must lean-up our military and must
stop fomenting and participating in foreign wars.

According
to the International Monetary Fund, China’s output in 2017 will
exceed $20 trillion. They will bury us unless we demand “Fair
Trade” instead of debt-laden “Free Trade.”

Finally,
while journalists and politicians eschew in-depth discussion about this
subject, it commands our attention. Christopher O. Clugston, author
of Scarcity: Humanity’s Final Chapter, addresses the fact that
humanity depletes the non-renewable resources on this finite planet
at an ever accelerating rate of speed. We add 1 billion humans every
12 years. The USA races on course to add 100 million people by 2035
and 138 million by 2050. So much so, the costs of energy, water, food
and resources will continue to climb. He says, “The natural resource
utilization behavior that enables our current “success”
(our industrialized way of life) is essential to perpetuating our success.
It is simultaneously undermining our very existence. Neither our natural
resource utilization behavior nor our industrial lifestyle paradigm
is sustainable. This is our predicament.”

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In
other words, we are outstripping, raping and depleting this planet’s
ability to sustain us as to minerals, metals, oil and arable land. We
face “overshoot” of our resources.

One
last thought: Hurricane Katrina wrought catastrophic mayhem. Hurricane
Sandy ripped up the East Coast.

Good
luck to the next president. You’re going to need a Pacific Ocean
of it if our civilization is to survive what’s coming.

Listen
to Frosty Wooldridge on Wednesdays as he interviews
top national leaders on his radio show "Connecting the Dots"
at www.themicroeffect.com
at 6:00 PM Mountain Time. Adjust tuning in to your time zone.

Frosty
Wooldridge possesses a unique view of the world, cultures and families
in that he has bicycled around the globe 100,000 miles, on six continents
and six times across the United States in the past 30 years. His published
books include: "HANDBOOK FOR TOURING BICYCLISTS"; “STRIKE THREE! TAKE
YOUR BASE”; “IMMIGRATION’S UNARMED INVASION: DEADLY CONSEQUENCES”; “MOTORCYCLE
ADVENTURE TO ALASKA: INTO THE WIND—A TEEN NOVEL”; “BICYCLING AROUND
THE WORLD: TIRE TRACKS FOR YOUR IMAGINATION”; “AN EXTREME ENCOUNTER:
ANTARCTICA.” His next book: “TILTING THE STATUE OF LIBERTY INTO A SWAMP.”
He lives in Denver, Colorado.